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From: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
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To: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, grog@lemis.de
Subject: Re: Vm fixes NG
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> From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
> Subject: Re: Vm fixes NG
> To: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
> 
> James Raynard writes:
> >
> >>> Well, you are right :-), if no panic, then no p->flags :-).
> >>
> >> Is there somewhere in the kernel where I could set a breakpoint to
> >> recover these values?
> >
> > On a related note, is there any way to stop X grabbing the Ctl-Alt
> > sequence and drop into DDB?
> 
> We discussed this a while back while talking about ddb.  The problem
> is that it's almost impossible to find a way to set the display card
> back to text mode.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
Syscons seems to be able to do this just fine via <cntl><alt><fx>.  It
would sure be nice to be able to drop into the debugger when running X
w/o having to switch to another virtual console first.

	-Jim